From 8/25/1960 to 7/16/1963 is: 3 weeks, 34 months
3-3-4
http://www.navysite.de/dd/ddg42.htm
USS Mahan (DDG 42)
USS MAHAN was the sixth FARRAGUT - class guided missile destroyer and the third ship in the Navy named after Rear Adm. Alfred Thayer Mahan. Commissioned as a guided missile frigate (DLG), the USS MAHAN was reclassified as guided missile destroyer (DDG) on June 30, 1975, changing its hullnumber from DLG 11 to DDG 42.
Commissioned: August 25, 1960
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: August 24, 2006
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Today is the day I remember as Caitlin's birthday. I wonder what that means. I seem to recall that I wrote about a possible connection with her birthday, rather this date, but I can't remember what it was.
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The worst part about all this is that I don't know what all has been revealed about my covert activities. Obviously, the most closely guarded secrets have already been revealed.
Yeah...this is the stuff...
http://www.navysite.de/dd/ddg42.htm
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MAHAN achieved another first in July 1985, as she successfully conducted the first Remote Track Launch on Search missile firing.
You don't even know that a missile is coming in until your wing blows up or some other hair-raising observation occurs.
One of the guys I was in class with in Dam Neck for the Terrier computers went to this ship as I went to the Wainwright, both were stationed in Charleston.
http://www.navysite.de/dd/ddg42.htm
USS MAHAN was the sixth FARRAGUT - class guided missile destroyer
